Curtain-hanger.



No. 682,764. Patented Sept. I7, l90l.

J. STEINBEBG.

CURTAIN HANGER.

(Application filed Jan. 4, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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JACOB STEINBERG, OF MCKEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

CURTAIN-HANGER.

$PECIFICATI ON forming part of Letters Patent No. 682,764, dated September 17, 1901.

Application filed January 4, 1901. gerial No. 42,132. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

4 Be itknown that I, JACOB STEINBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at McKees port, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Curtain-Hangers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to that class of devices by means of which curtains are attached to window-frames for support; and its object is to accommodate that class of residents who rent tenements and move from place to place where the windows differ in width.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts forming a curtain-hanger hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I is an end View, partly in crosssection at the line of Fig. II, of a curtainhanger constructed according to my invention. Fig. 11 is a top View of a portion of the same curtain-hanger, showing but one of the two brackets, which are alike. Fig. III is a cross-section of the body-fixture at the line y, Fig. II.

Numeral 5 represents the body of the fixture, which is tubular and a little shorter than the width of any window with which it is designed for use.

6 represents cars by which the body is to be secured with screws 7 to the window-casin g, so as to be readily removed. These ears are formed of the body-tube by cutting into the latter at each side of the portion designed for an ear, then cutting centrally lengthwise of the tube to separate the ears, and afterward bending them outward into the position shown, when screwholes may be made in them and their ends may be rounded or otherwise shaped, as desired.

8 represents sleeves, one of which is fitted to telescope into each end of the body 5, each sleeve being provided with a short bracket 9, which is notched at 10 to receive one of the trunnions 11 of a curtain roller 12, which roller may be slotted and provided with a bead-strip 13 for holding the curtain.

14 is the body of a bracket, which is fitted to telescope into the sleeve 8 and is bent upward at 15 and outward at 16as an arm to carry the adjustable arm 17, which is fitted to telescope within the arm 16, and is provided with lugs 19 to rest in notches in the edges of the trough portion 21 of arm 16. The arm 17 has a downward bend or hollow 18 to carry a curtain-pole, and it may be ad justed to carry the curtains at the desired distance in front of the window by lif-tingthe outer end of the arm enough to disengage the lugs 19 from the notches 20 and sliding it along in trough2l. When the lugs 19 are in the extreme outer notches, as shown, the inner end 22 of the arm 17 is within the tubular portion of body 16, so that weight at 18 tends to hold the lugs 19 in engagement with the trough 21 and cannot pry the arm 17 out of the trough. To permit the arm 17 to be raised, so that'the lugs may pass over the trough edges into the notches at the inner end, the arm 17 may be less in vertical thickness than the depth of the trough or it may be reduced on top, as shown by a dotted line, gradually from the rear end to the shoulder 23. This construction secures the arm 17 at the desired point of extension without any spring or removable screw or. pin to hold it. The sleeve 8 is open along its upper side to permit a bindingscrew 24, that is threaded through the body 5, to press directly upon the body 14, whereby the single screw 24 serves to bind both the said body 14 and the sleeve 8 rigidly at whatever points of extension they may be set. The body 14 may be located centrally in the sleeve 8, as shown in Fig. I; but I prefer to make that sleeve trough-shaped, as in Fig. III, in which case the body 5 and sleeve 8 may be made of sheet or tube metal and the body 14 of stifi wire or a metallic rod. In this case the trough 21 would be formed integral with the tubular portion that serves as an extension of the arm 16, as shown.

This curtain=hanger maybe wholly removed from the window by withdrawing the screws 7, and the sleeve 8 may be slid out or in to receive a shade-roller 12 of the length required for another window, and the bracketbody 14 may be slid out or in and be rocked to swing the bearing 18 up or down to locate the curtain-pole and curtains to suit the surroundings in accordance with prevailing styles or the owners taste. Rosettes 25 or any other style of ornamentation may be added to make this curtain-hanger elaborate and ornamental; but in its simpler form it is inexpensive, while being efficient and durable.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I believe to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. In curtain -hangers, a tubular body adapted to be secured to a window-casing; brackets for supporting a shade-roller, having each a sleeve open along one side and fitted to telescope within the said body; brackets for supporting a curtain-pole, having each a portion fitted to telescope into the said sleeve, and a binding-screw threaded through the aforesaid body to bear directly 1 upon the said portion of the pole-bracket, substantially as described.

2. In curtain-hangers, a body adapted to be secured to a window-casing and having a binding-screw; a shade-roller bracket and a 1 curtain-pole bracket each having a portion fitted to telescope one into the other and both fitted to telescope within the said body, and adapted to be both secured by the said binding-screw, substantially as described.

3. In curtain-hangers, a bracket comprising an arm which has a tubular portion and a trough-shaped portion with notches in the edges of the trough; and a second arm fitted to rest in the said trough and having lugs to engage the said notches therein while the end of second arm is within the said tubular portion, the second arm having a curved portion to support a curtain-pole, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB STEINBERGL Witnesses:

it. HARRY JOHNSON, MARY E. KELLY. 

